Surah Yā-Sīn (Ya Sin) in English

1. وما أنزلنا على قومه من بعده من جند من السماء وما كنا منزلين

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   After him We did not send down on his people a host from the sky, nor We would have sent down.

   wa-mā ʾanzalnā ʿalā qawmihī min baʿdihī min jundin mina s-samāʾi wa-mā kunnā munzilīna

2. إن كانت إلا صيحة واحدة فإذا هم خامدون

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   It was but a single Cry, and, behold, they were stilled [like burnt ashes]!

   ʾin kānat ʾillā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-ʾidhā hum khāmidūna

3. يا حسرة على العباد ما يأتيهم من رسول إلا كانوا به يستهزئون

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   How regrettable of the servants! There did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.

   yā-ḥasratan ʿalā l-ʿibādi mā yaʾtīhim min rasūlin ʾillā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

4. ألم يروا كم أهلكنا قبلهم من القرون أنهم إليهم لا يرجعون

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   Have they not regarded how many generations We have destroyed before them who will not come back to them?

   ʾa-lam yaraw kam ʾahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni ʾannahum ʾilayhim lā yarjiʿūna

5. وإن كل لما جميع لدينا محضرون

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   And all of them will indeed be presented before Us.

   wa-ʾin kullun lammā jamīʿun ladaynā muḥḍarūna

6. وآية لهم الأرض الميتة أحييناها وأخرجنا منها حبا فمنه يأكلون

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   A sign for them is the dead earth, which We revive and bring forth grain out of it, so they eat of it.

   wa-ʾāyatun lahumu l-ʾarḍu l-maytatu ʾaḥyaynāhā wa-ʾakhrajnā minhā ḥabban fa-minhu yaʾkulūna

7. وجعلنا فيها جنات من نخيل وأعناب وفجرنا فيها من العيون

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   We make in it orchards of date palms and vines, and We cause springs to gush forth in it,

   wa-jaʿalnā fīhā jannātin min nakhīlin wa-ʾaʿnābin wa-fajjarnā fīhā mina l-ʿuyūni

8. ليأكلوا من ثمره وما عملته أيديهم أفلا يشكرون

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   so that they may eat of its fruit and what their hands have cultivated. Will they not then give thanks?

   li-yaʾkulū min thamarihī wa-mā ʿamilathu ʾaydīhim ʾa-fa-lā yashkurūna

9. سبحان الذي خلق الأزواج كلها مما تنبت الأرض ومن أنفسهم ومما لا يعلمون

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   Immaculate is He who has created all the kinds of what the earth grows, and of themselves, and of what they do not know.

   subḥāna lladhī khalaqa l-ʾazwāja kullahā mimmā tunbitu l-ʾarḍu wa-min ʾanfusihim wa-mimmā lā yaʿlamūna

10. وآية لهم الليل نسلخ منه النهار فإذا هم مظلمون

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    A sign for them is the night, which We strip of daylight, and, behold, they find themselves in the dark!

    wa-ʾāyatun lahumu l-laylu naslakhu minhu n-nahāra fa-ʾidhā hum muẓlimūna

11. والشمس تجري لمستقر لها ذلك تقدير العزيز العليم

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    The sun runs on to its place of rest: That is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing.

    wa-sh-shamsu tajrī li-mustaqarrin lahā dhālika taqdīru l-ʿazīzi l-ʿalīmi

12. والقمر قدرناه منازل حتى عاد كالعرجون القديم

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    As for the moon, We have ordained its phases, until it becomes like an old palm leaf.

    wa-l-qamara qaddarnāhu manāzila ḥattā ʿāda ka-l-ʿurjūni l-qadīmi

13. لا الشمس ينبغي لها أن تدرك القمر ولا الليل سابق النهار وكل في فلك يسبحون

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    Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit.

    lā sh-shamsu yanbaghī lahā ʾan tudrika l-qamara wa-lā l-laylu sābiqu n-nahāri wa-kullun fī falakin yasbaḥūna